Suspected associate of Al Qaeda arrested in Bengal

Kolkata (IANS) | The Special Task Force of the West Bengal Police has arrested a suspected associate of international terrorist group Al Qaeda. It was announced on Tuesday.

While the state police did not disclose details, sources said the suspect, identified as Naseemuddin Shaikh, was arrested when he visited his relative’s house in Dadpur in Hooghly district.

Sources said that Sheikh, originally a resident of Khargram in Murshidabad district, was absconding for a long time. But the STF officials came to know from their sources that he had recently returned to the state and was staying with a relative in Dadpur.

Sources said that TSF personnel arrested him from there after a sudden raid. Several incriminating documents have been seized from his procession and STF sleuths are currently probing them.

He will be produced in the lower district court on Wednesday.

Sources said in November last year, the STF had arrested Maniruddin Khan, another Al Qaeda associate, from Mathurapur in South 24 Parganas district. A pen-drive was recovered from him, from which STF got vital information including Sheikh’s name.

–IANS